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National Defense January 2011 Stew Magnuson |
Transportation Security Card to Come Under Microscope Again The Government Accountability Office said it will release a detailed report on the transportation worker identification credential in February, which will include the results of covert testing at port facilities.  |
National Defense August 2013 Sarah Sicard |
Lawmakers Question Future of Port Worker ID Card Program If implemented, new Defense Department regulations could leave contractors to foot the bill for the use of counterfeit parts.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2004 |
Government tests biometric ID card for U.S. transportation workers The Transportation Worker Identity Credential (TWIC) Program is now being tested at the Port of Long Beach Container Terminal, in Los Angeles. Over the next seven months, the program will expand to 34 sites in six states.  |
National Defense January 2008 Stew Magnuson |
DHS Pressing On With Troubled Technology Programs Whether it is program delays, public uproars over its policies, court challenges or accusations of mismanagement, nothing ever seems to go smoothly for DHS. Many of these controversial programs involve the development of new technologies.  |
National Defense February 2009 Stew Magnuson |
DHS Leaders Inherit Litany of Procurement Woes There is a new administration and a new Congress. But will it be a new day for the way the Department of Homeland Security acquires technology?  |
National Defense January 2007 Stew Magnuson |
Maritime Domain Roadmap Seeks to ID All Vessels A layered sensor network that stretches out to the deep waters of the oceans will be required to track and identify every vessel approaching U.S. shores, according to a draft of the maritime domain awareness technology roadmap.  |
National Defense April 2008 Stew Magnuson |
DHS Will Miss Deadline to Set Up Port Security Hubs The future of pilot port security hubs remains uncertain as security officials wait for answers from the Department of Homeland Security.  |
National Defense November 2007 Breanne Wagner |
Government Lacks Clear Plans to ID Small Vessels Used as Terrorist Weapons In order to decrease the risk of an attack, the government is proposing new security plans. Some suggestions have been met with stiff resistance.  |
National Defense January 2008 Breanne Wagner |
Coast Guard Procurement Programs Struggling, But Staying Afloat Coast Guard officials are optimistic that a new agency in charge of acquisitions can help salvage the service's modernization plans and restore confidence in its ability to manage complex projects.  |
InternetNews March 2, 2007 Roy Mark |
REAL ID Deadline Evaporates Under Pressure The Department of Homeland Security postpones implementation of controversial law mandating standardized state driver's licenses linked in databases.  |
National Defense March 2007 |
Security Beat Coast Guard Ponders Future, Delivers New Mission Statement... Border Patrol Reaching Out to Fill 6,000 Slots... etc.  |
National Defense February 2013 Stew Magnuson |
DHS Pushes Back REAL ID Deadline Again to Accomodate Cash-Strapped States The Department of Homeland Security moved the goal posts back in December again when it granted a third extension for 37 states to comply with the REAL ID Act of 2005.  |
National Defense September 2010 Magnuson & Fugate |
Monitoring Small Vessels Still a Challenge for Coast Guard, Says GAO The Government Accountability Office has found that few resources are being devoted to the small vessel threat.  |
IEEE Spectrum January 2006 Erico Guizzo |
Loser: Britain's Identity Crisis Proposed biometric ID cards won't prevent fraud or terrorism  |
National Defense July 2004 Joe Pappalardo |
Security Beat Airport Security Programs A Summer Priority... Data Mining Not Yet Ready To Take on Terror Cells... Maritime Test Center Off to Rolling Start... U.S. and Europe Reach Data-Sharing Accord... etc.  |
National Defense October 2014 Stew Magnuson |
Johnson Latest DHS Secretary to Waive 100 Percent Cargo Screening Mandate Despite a long string of secretaries and Customs and Border Protection commissioners speaking out against the practicality of the law, some members of Congress are still pushing DHS to fulfill the mandate.  |
National Defense May 2004 Harold Kennedy |
Defending Ports The U.S. Coast Guard has begun aggressive enforcement of the Maritime Transportation Act in an effort to increase protection of the nation's ports and waterways from terrorist attack.  |
National Defense November 2007 Stew Magnuson |
U.S. Government Driving The Advance of Biometric Technologies Technology companies are rapidly developing biometric devices. But privacy policies, the tech backbone to effectively connect the scanners, and a market beyond the U.S. government, are lagging.  |
National Defense October 2005 Joe Pappalardo |
Security Beat Chemical Plant Protection Legislation on the Way... DHS, State Department Wage Visa War... Document Requirements Waived for Hurricane Victims... U.S. Court Blocks Enforcement of Personnel Rules... etc.  |
National Defense June 2005 Joe Pappalardo |
Law Enforcement Takes to Boats Around Vital Waterways There is a nationwide trend to place more law enforcement into boats. Coordination among U.S. Coast Guard personnel, state police, first responders and local cops is essential to enhancing security on the nation's waterways.  |
National Defense November 2006 Stew Magnuson |
Fear of Terror Weapons Drives Tech Funding With the nation in the throes of the so-called "long war," it is no surprise that the bulk of the Department of Homeland Security's research dollars is going toward technologies designed to prevent terrorist attacks.  |
Inc. January 2004 Rod Kurtz |
Safer Harbors, Higher Fees New Coast Guard rules could make shipping more expensive.  |
BusinessWeek August 8, 2005 |
Big Brother Britain? The Blair Administration's proposal for biometric ID cards looked like a goner - until the July 7 attacks in London. But critics still worry about their intrusiveness.  |
InternetNews June 1, 2004 Roy Mark |
Accenture Lands Potential $10B Federal Contract Company to employ biometrics as part of Department of Homeland Defense's virtual border program.  |
National Defense June 2006 Stew Magnuson |
Cooperation key to expanding Coast Guard's reach The Defense Department's Northern Command and the Coast Guard are organizing a maritime domain awareness "community of interest."  |
National Defense April 2010 Stew Magnuson |
Face, Iris and Fingerprint Biometrics Good Enough for Now, Says White House Staffer Federal agencies that collect biometric data to screen individuals should concentrate their efforts on fingerprints, faces and irises, and perfect the collection of those technologies first.  |
National Defense January 2008 Grace V. Jean |
Coast Guard Reorganizes in Anticipation of Future Threats The Coast Guard is standing up a new disaster response command and is using lessons learned from 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina for guidance.  |
National Defense April 2004 Geoff S. Fein |
Security Beat The biggest challenge facing the maritime transportation industry is ensuring that legitimate cargo is not needlessly delayed as new security measures are implemented.  |
National Defense February 2007 Stew Magnuson |
DHS Technology Chief to Focus on Explosives Threat The Pentagon will have some help in its ongoing effort to defeat improvised explosive devices if Jay Cohen, director of science and technology at the Department of Homeland Security, gets his way.  |
U.S. Banker December 2001 Mark Bruno |
Biometrics' Day Has Come Demand for biometrics security technology appears to be rising as a result of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. If production actually does pick up, prices could decline and banks could become major buyers...  |
National Defense January 2009 Stew Magnuson |
Defense Department Under Pressure to Share Biometric Data Within minutes of knocking down the door of a suspected bomb maker in Iraq, U.S. troops can fingerprint everyone they find inside, send the scans across a satellite link, and find out if the subjects are suspected terrorists.  |
National Defense May 2006 Stew Magnuson |
Lawmakers Introduce Tunnel Legislation The movement of illegal immigrants or narcotics through a tunnel under a U.S. border is a felony, but there are no laws on the books preventing the excavation itself.  |
National Defense May 2004 Kennedy & Tiron |
Securitybeat U.S. Beefs Up Security On Railway Systems... Budget Amendment Good News for DHS... Air Force Adopts Biometrics Security Systems... etc.  |
National Defense June 2006 Sandra I. Erwin |
Weighing the Costs of Security A smorgasbord of legislation and policy directives aimed at patching up security at U.S. ports in recent years has resulted in expenditures of billions of dollars worth of protective systems and technologies.  |
InternetNews May 8, 2007 Roy Mark |
Leahy Raises REAL ID Act Revolt Vermont senator says Congress should reconsider law that calls for national identification standards.  |
Inc. September 2004 Rod Kurtz |
Small Biz Braces for Life on the High (Priced) Seas Importers and exporters face a new era in port security -- and that could bring choppy waters for small companies. Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge has repeatedly said that industry should expect to absorb much of the cost for securing ports  |
National Defense November 2007 Stew Magnuson |
Military Identity Technology Leaps Ahead of Policies To help fight the Iraqi insurgency, the Defense Department has pushed biometric collection technologies into the field. But policies on how best to use them are not fully developed.  |
National Defense December 2004 Joe Pappalardo |
If Ports Are Attacked, U.S. Lacks Plans to Deal With Aftermath The lack of a plan indicates the complexities of handling threats against maritime targets, and the government's emphasis on taking care of airline security and monitoring containers over planning a response in the event of a sea-based attack.  |
National Defense January 2009 Kimberly Johnson |
Navy Seeks to Miniaturize Biometric Gear The Navy plans to issue biometric-capable handheld computers that can help sailors quickly identify a terrorist suspect when they are searching enemy ships.  |
National Defense April 2005 Joe Pappalardo |
Security Beat Smart ID cards will be used at all federal facilities... Hate tracts imported to America's mosques... Defense net falls short in homeland missions... Coast Guard unveils new port security tech... Hemisphere anti-terror effort gets increase...  |
National Defense June 2005 Joe Pappalardo |
Federal Agencies Tackle Maritime Security, Ports First The U.S. government's plan to increase its awareness of activities on the world's waterways is starting close to home, as many federal agencies turn their attention to ports. Officials from the Navy and DHS said the task of securing the maritime domain is a global problem.  |
National Defense November 2011 Eric Beidel |
Coast Guard Cyberdefense Office: Small but Mighty Like the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps, the Coast Guard suffers thousands of attacks on its networks each month.  |
National Defense October 2014 Stew Magnuson |
TSA System May Make Boarding Passes Obsolete The Transportation Security Administration awarded MorphoTrust USA a contract to provide passport and driver's license scanners in airports, a step which will one day lead to the elimination of boarding passes.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2005 John McHale |
TSA to Introduce New Technology for Access-Control Enhancements The second phase of the Transportation Security Administration's Airport Access Control Pilot Program will include advanced video surveillance, RFID cards, iris-scan readers and hand-geometry readers.  |
National Defense January 2006 Stew Magnuson |
Security Beat Coast Guard Drops In on Lawbreakers... Chief Medical Officer's Role Pondered... Divorce for FEMA; Marriage for Customs?... Visa Malfeasance Eyed... HAZMAT Law in Line for Changes... TSA, Army Test Bomb Detector...  |
IEEE Spectrum May 2011 Joshua J. Romero |
Fast Start for World's Biggest Biometrics ID Project In India, a few million people have been registered for a biometric database so far - only a billion left to go.  |
National Defense February 2004 Geoff S. Fein |
Security Beat Federal government gets 'D' in cyber-security... DHS awards multiple security contracts... Companies selected for air defense program... etc.  |
National Defense November 2009 Wright & Magnuson |
Government Ignores Cargo Scanning Law, Port Operator Says The Department of Homeland Security is ignoring a law that calls on it to monitor, by 2012, every container that enters a U.S. port, an executive at one of the world's leading port-operating companies charged.  |
National Defense February 2006 Stew Magnuson |
Smart Fence, Not Stupid Fence, Says Chertoff Security Beat: Smart Fences for Border Control... DHS Scraps Flight List Plan... Coast Guard to Deploy UAV... N.J. Beefs Up Chemical Plant Security... FEMA Struggled to Track Commodities... etc.  |
National Defense August 2010 Eric Beidel |
Technology Immediately Identifies the 'Bad Guys' Defense ID is a simple scanner than can keep beer away from minors and terrorists off planes.  |